My name is Jonathan Guerra, and I'm 17 years old. I'm a senior at Rowe-Clark Math and Science Academy.
This week (1/26/15 - 1/30/15) we learned about spacetime and how it's actually 4 dimensional. Also, we learned the actually reason for gravity: the curvature of spacetime. The image below shows how spacetime looks in a 2 dimensional figure. Also, we learned about black holes. They are very dense in a very small amount of space. This is what causes it to collapse on itself and created the actual black hole. We also learned about worm holes. They are a way to cheat traveling faster than the speed of light, and maybe possible, but have never been seen.
2/13/15- During this week I learned the different layers of the sun. This includes the corona, which is the flames coming out of the sun, the chromophere, which is the second outer layer, the photosphere, which is the part visible, the convection zone, where the gas rises and falls, the radioactive zone, annd the inner core. also we learned how to use the famous equation E=mc^2 to calculate energy emitted by the sun and other stars. We also used it to calculate the mass of stars with a given amount of energy. I would want to learn more about worm holes and black holes. It's really interesting how a worm hole is cheating the speed of light and a black hole is this huge vacuum in space.
02/20/15 - this week we learned about the law of reflection. The law of reflection states that the incident angle has to be the same as the reflection angle.
The video above shows total internal reflection. Water has properties similar to mirrors that allow it to reflect light. Since the angle of the falling water is not steep enough, the light is reflected inside the water and is just bouncing around inside the stream of water. f
This week (1/26/15 - 1/30/15) we learned about spacetime and how it's actually 4 dimensional. Also, we learned the actually reason for gravity: the curvature of spacetime. The image below shows how spacetime looks in a 2 dimensional figure. Also, we learned about black holes. They are very dense in a very small amount of space. This is what causes it to collapse on itself and created the actual black hole. We also learned about worm holes. They are a way to cheat traveling faster than the speed of light, and maybe possible, but have never been seen.
2/13/15- During this week I learned the different layers of the sun. This includes the corona, which is the flames coming out of the sun, the chromophere, which is the second outer layer, the photosphere, which is the part visible, the convection zone, where the gas rises and falls, the radioactive zone, annd the inner core.
02/20/15 - this week we learned about the law of reflection. The law of reflection states that the incident angle has to be the same as the reflection angle.
The video above shows total internal reflection. Water has properties similar to mirrors that allow it to reflect light. Since the angle of the falling water is not steep enough, the light is reflected inside the water and is just bouncing around inside the stream of water. f